Woody+Allen

 Contractions in running speech * the monosyllabic luncheon invitation “Jeet?”


 * Mr. Ramos, 26, the television reporter, grew up in Passaic, N.J., and he said his New York regional accent was “an endearing quality because New York is a great place to be from, but if you ever want to work outside New York, it may put you in a box.”**

Still, you don’t have to be a speech therapist to identify New Yorkers by their accents, to hear the dropped “r” in park and car, or the monosyllabic luncheon invitation “Jeet?”


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** via youtube (0:57) "Did you eat?"
> jew eat --> jeet ** =====

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** There are a lot of things that offend me and I consider myself just a little less paranoid than say Woody Allen from Annie Hall who thinks everyone is talking about him being Jewish. He’s walking and he’s telling the story of how someone said to him, “Jew eat? He didn’t say //did you//, I distinctly heard him say, Jew eat? ” (via [|Scott Rosenzweig]) ** =====